This is part of a series I’m writing called Motivated Mondays.  In order to be able to provide service to others including animals, we need to feel good about our bodies and keep them healthy.

Most Americans including myself would agree that Julia Roberts is a beautiful woman.  Just like this “ideal” image, Julia is tall, thin and curvy, and she fits the American ideal of what a healthy woman should look like, but to many other cultures she does not have an ideal physique and in fact may be considered undesirable.  Bombarded by media, we continually see this ideal Hollywood physique.  But do you know only 10% of the population is capable of maintaining that thin appearance.  The rest of us need to understand our ideal may be a woman who is 5’4” and 140LB’s.  Or maybe, if you are tall and muscular like me your ideal may be 5’8” with a weight range of 170-180LB’s. 

Starving yourself to fit a Hollywood image of beauty is harmful to your body and it takes away time that could be better spent enjoying life and being of service to others.  God made you perfect.  Instead of trying to look like someone else, figure out what your personal best is.  No one can top that!